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North Koreans` Fear of Freedom

“Could freedom turn into a burden that makes some of us choose to relinquish it, and instead lead a life of submission?”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Thousands gathered in snow-bound streets for the huge funeral procession of leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang.

As the hearse passed, I suddenly realized that the real problem of North Korea lies not in its unmonitored nuclear capabilities, but rather in its people and in their ostensible fear of freedom.

When Silence Serves Violence Best in Rwanda

When silence serves violence best in Rwanda

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Rwanda’s political opposition is once again under attack. On January 3, 2012 reports out of Kigali reveal another grenade attack in a local market.

With Grenades, unjustified arrests, and attempted assignations in other countries, the oppositional parties to the ruling regime in Rwanda face an uphill battle in striving for peace and reconciliation.

Outspoken perennial candidate Louis Gatewood Galbraith dies

The charismatic politician believed we could change the world for the better.

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) - Louis Gatewood Galbraith died today, 4 January. Loved and admired by both family and a large circle of friends, this American lawyer and author from the U.S. state of Kentucky was a five-time candidate for Governor.

Mr. Galbraith has been an outspoken proponent of education and also privacy rights and other civil liberties. In his most recent race, he was defeated as the Independent candidate for Governor in the 2011 general election, Wikipedia explains.

Rwanda: Attack with grenades near a market in Kigali

The spokesman of the police, Theos Badege told Reuters that a single grenade was responsible for this tragedy.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - 20 people were injured on the evening of Tuesday, January 3 in a grenade attack near an outdoor market of vegetables and fruits being at Nyabisindu in Gasabo District, close to the Stade Amahoro Kigali.

Among the 20 injured, two of them would have died in the meantime, according to a diplomatic source who nevertheless remains to be confirmed by the police, we are told the correspondent on the spot from Reuters, Graham Holliday on his Twitter account.

To be consequent as an Internationalist New Year 2012

Internationalism is an endless struggle, an endless challenge.

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - What is internationalism?—cooperation among people and nations, states my dictionary. The book of definitions maintains that internationalism is a principle of communism and socialism. It is the belief of ideological leaders such as Lenin, Fidel and Che.

Che wrote in his essay, “Socialism and Man”, that proletarian internationalism isn’t just a duty but a necessity.

OxyContin: the Worst Lethal Scandal in American Medicine

ZoHydro is soon to join OxyContin.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - The basis for this article is another excellent article titled: "Painful Medicine" in Fortune magazine.

21 November 2011 by Katherine Ebam, who also wrote in a previous edition, "Dangerous Doses", and others about OxyContin. I looked up a bit of her professional biography and I am impressed that she did such an excellent job on such a pharmacological/medical technical subject which would be difficult even for most pharmacologists.

Comparing Hitler`s `final solution` and Rajapaksa`s `final war` on LTTE

Groups urge opposition to heinous attempts to do business on the dead bodies of the Tamil martyrs.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The UN Report "on accountability in Sri Lanka" is finally out, it amounts to a further brandishing of the liberation struggle for separate Tamil Eelam as 'violent ethnic conflict'.

It is a follow-up on the joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the Government of Sri Lanka made in 2009.

Barack Obama Takes a Cruel, Personal Shot at U.S. Marines

The Oval Office proves once again that Obama's alliance is toward corporate Amerika and the vaunted 1%, and certainly not with this nation's warriors.

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com readers know that we care greatly about the water contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.

For decades, Marines drank the water along with their families, and they died of cancer, men developed the highest rate of breast cancer for any single spot known on earth, and so many infants were stillborn that Marine moms were at one point, forced to have their babies cremated.

Whether Or Not You Weather The Storm

There’s something God wants you to do, there’s something God wants me to do, and there are risky things that God calls us to do.

(CLEVELAND) - Soren Kierkegaard, one of the greatest philosophers and theologians of a couple generations ago says we’ve interpreted the parable of the talents all wrong.

It’s the parable where a certain man goes on a journey and gives to one ten talents, to one five talents, to one only one talent. The guy with the ten talents invests it and comes out with ten talents more.

`Time to Attack Iran`?

A Council on Foreign Relations article lacks transparency and impartiality...

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - he council on foreign relations, one of the think tanks seen as a major contributor to the forecasting of the White House foreign policies, has lately published an opinion piece that says “Time to attack Iran”.

In the piece the council downplays the fears of many skeptics who envision the perilous consequences of an attack on Iran tantamount to a WWIII scenario, and therefore refuse to subscribe to a preemptive strike of its nuclear facilities.